As the previous thread filled up, here is part 2 of the The Unarchiver thread.

• The old thread is here: http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1151796773/
• The homepage is here: http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver
• The Google Code page is here: http://code.google.com/p/theunarchiver/

It is much better to post bugs on the bug tracker, rather than in this thread! Anything posted on the bug tracker has much less chance of being forgotten by me!

So, post bugs here: http://code.google.com/p/theunarchiver/issues/list

Also, remember that if you post a bug about a file that is not work, you must also post the file itself, or else there is nothing I can do about it!

Unarchiver won't open RAR files. :(

I can't open a lot of file types including rar and 7z files especially the ones broken into parts .001, .002, etc.

hi,

Everytime i need to open a .zip file, it opens the settings window instead.

To add to that, I cannot change the extensions that it can extract.

Since then I had to use the Archive Utility by Apple.

Please help with this.

reply to [email protected]

The one reason I downloaded this was to try and play Dwarf Fortress on my mac but it keeps saying that it's contents cannot be opened by this program. The mac version can be downloaded on bay12games for the whole folder. The app says it should be able to handle .exe files so there is clearly something I'm not understanding.

@Visco:
.exe are for windows. download the mac version of dwarf fortress.

Is there any way to force The Unarchiver to run in the background on OS Yosemite? Every time my download manager finishes a download, it extracts it (as I want), but The Unarchiver becomes the active application and a window pops up showing (briefly) the progress of the un-zipping. The pop-up is distracting and, imho, unnecessary), and the program steals my keystrokes when I am typing.

I would prefer to have the files unzipped in the background, with no interruption to my workflow.

Thank you.

I have recently swapped out the HDD on my iMac for an SSD. Wow - the speed bump is huge! However, having done this, Unarchiver doesn't remember that I've permitted it to extract files to a folder - usually my desktop - when extracting .rar files

I'm using the MAS version of the app on 10.10.3. I have used AppCleaner to fully uninstall the app and its attendant files and then re-installed it by downloading again from the MAS, but this makes no difference to the behaviour described above. Any ideas please?

TIA,
Tim.

I recently installed TheUnarchiver. It is advertised as able to extract .iso files, but I am unable to select the .iso box on the "Open these archives types with The Unarchiver" page.

Could it be? An actual update?

Yes, 3.10 is finally released! It is mainly a bugfix release, fixing some of the issues I've collected over time, but mainly fixing compatibility with El Capitan.

I've also stopped distributing the App Store version outside the App Store, as the sandboxing has made it quite unusable now. Instead, there is a non-sandboxed up-to-date version with Sparkle updates (which I hope will work, as I have not yet had a chance to test them). The legacy version is also still available, but without code signing or Sparkle updates.

Get it here:

http://unarchiver.c3.cx/downloads/TheUnarchiver3.10.dmg
http://unarchiver.c3.cx/downloads/TheUnarchiver3.10_legacy.zip

Changes:

• Fixed crash on OS X 10.11.
• Fixed an issue that made unpacked application not work.
• Removed file type selector from the App Store version, as Apple broke it and there is no way to get it back to working. Apple does not allow me to tell anybody this in the actual app, though.
• Made the normal non-App Store version not be sandboxed anymore to deal with these problems. It also now tries to update via Sparkle. This should mean that most people will not need to use the legacy version any longer to get decent functionality. (Legacy version does not use Sparkle.)
• Better support for Zip, 7z, gzip and NSIS files.
• Bugfixes for pax and ARJ.
• Fixes for a few crashing bugs.
• Added Hungarian translation by Dávid Áron Lőrincz.
• Other translation fixes.

unar and lsar have also been updated to version 1.9 to match. Get them here:

http://unarchiver.c3.cx/downloads/unar1.9.zip
http://unarchiver.c3.cx/downloads/unar1.9_legacy.zip

Unfortunately, I don't have a working cross compiler for Windows at the moment so I'll have to leave that version until a bit later.

Changes:

• Fixed crash on OS X 10.11.
• Fixed an issue that made unpacked application not work.
• Better support for Zip, 7z, gzip and NSIS files.
• Bugfixes for pax and ARJ.
• Fixes for a few crashing bugs.
• Better quiet mode in unar.
• Better JSON output for lsar.

Where can I submit the Swedish language translation as I wan't to help by translating it? I am from Sweden and I'm good at english. Please contact me on [email protected]

I really want to help you with this awesome app by translating it to Swedish.

Ra: Post 411 - New Version 3.10.

I downloaded this from the App Store and it crashes every time I use it. I have a 2009 iMac with 1Tb Hard Drive and 4Gb ram. I am using Mavericks 10.9.5. Previously The Unarchiver has been very good. I will have to remove it and use the mac's unzipping tool. I was trying to unzip a new version of FileZilla, and The Unarchiver crashed, I then tried an old zip file that I know works and it crashed again. If I start it up and don't use it, it stays running, as soon as I try to unzip something it crashed. Is the latest version not compatible with Mavericks? I tried it with Time Machine Turned off, and the same result.

>>414

It should be compatible. Could you please post an issue on the bug tracker (https://bitbucket.org/WAHa_06x36/theunarchiver/issues?status=new&status=open) and include a file that crashes, and preferably a crash report?

For >>415 and anyone else affected. this bug has now been fixed. The Unarchiver was indeed crashing on 10.9 and below.

New releases here:

http://unarchiver.c3.cx/downloads/TheUnarchiver3.10.1.dmg
http://unarchiver.c3.cx/downloads/unar1.9.1.zip

Legacy versions are unaffected.

3.10.1 on 10.6 snow leopard,
still crashing at launch

Hello.

What about WinRAR 5 binaries? A lot of people over the internet has specified this problem with the unarchiver, it's the best app of it's kind but when we need to unpack rar files made with newer version of WinRAR 5 it does not unpack and tells the archive it's corrupted. However, if we try the same file with Keka there's no problem at all.

Try this: compress a simple file with the new WinRAR 5 in windows, try to extract it with the unarchiver. Do you see it?

This problem it's going on for almost TWO years now, and I always have to use stup*d keka to extract newer rar versions.

For the comments it simply appears you are ignoring it this last 2 YEARS! It's that developer love or there's some kind of technical issue under it?

Thanks for all your work.
Best regards,
João

>>418

The unrar sources aren't free software and are incompatible with The Unarchiver's license, so I can't use them. All the RAR code has been re-implemented from scratch, so adding support for an entirely new format (like RAR 5 is) takes a lot of time and effort.

There is partial support for RAR 5 at the moment (which is not yet enabled in the actual releases because it's unfinished), but it will take a lot of work to get it done. It's tentatively planned for the next release, but we'll see.

Apple finally got around to approving it, so 3.10.1 should be on the App Store too now.

OK I downloaded and installed The Unarchiver.

When I run it it opens the Preferences menu and quits when I close the menu.

There doesn’t seem to be any entry in the File menu to actually open a file. How do I do this?

>>421

Just drop files on it, or set it as the default handler for archive files.

bug.. el captain click app store click purchases the unarchiver marked as install. in stalled it again to make app store happy button switched to open. relaunched app store clicked purchases again marked as install. so elcaptain is not keeping the installed receipt.it thinks it is not installed even thou its in my applications folder.

>>423

I don't have any control over the App Store, so you have to report it to Apple.

Is there any documentation available for using the XADMaster framework in another project to handle archives?

Specifically, the later versions changed how XADArchiveParserDelegate is handled and the @protocol statement is removed in the latest version's headers. It was previously there in v3.3.

I can't find any reference to using it in the app source code itself but another open source project does and now fails with ""Cannot find protocol declaration for 'XADArchiveParserDelegate'".

Thanks,

Mike